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jinleileiking
jinleileiking

Reputation: 247

How to highlight or mark a line in vim

We can highlight different marks in vim using mark.vim but, how can I highlight a line in Vim?

For example:

Line One
Line Two
Line Three

I let the cursor on line one, I highlight line one, the whole line is highlighted. Then I type jj to move to line 3, the line one is highlighted too, but didn't disappear.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11851

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172778

If you're looking for the permanent highlighting of the current line, following along with the cursor, that's a built-in feature of Vim since version 7.0. To activate this, put the following into your ~/.vimrc:

set cursorline

Upvotes: 5

Yep_It's_Me
Yep_It's_Me

Reputation: 4821

Use v to get into visual mode. <shift>v will highlight the entire line and <ctrl>v will take you into visual block mode so you can highlight columns.

Upvotes: 9

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